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Efxclipse/SWTonFX
What is it
SWT on JavaFX is an experimental SWT port sitting on top of JavaFX. It's main task is to built a compat story to move the Eclipse IDE away from SWT to JavaFX.
How to contribute
- Get JDK8Beta > b120 from https://jdk8.java.net/download.html
- Get Eclipse 4.3 SR 1 from http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.3.1-201309111000/
- Install EGit-Team Provider
- Install JDTBeta8 feature patches from http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/java8/e43
- Install e(fx)clipse tooling
- add update site http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/tmf/xtext/updates/composite/releases/
- add update site ttp://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/updates-nightly/site
- Clone https://bitbucket.org/tschindl/e_on_f.git
- Get familiar with the codebase
- Show up at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/swt-javafx and ask questions, and inform others what you plan to work on
Contributions
Generally speaking any contribution is welcome. An easy way to contribute is to port one of the SWT-Snippets http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/ to the at.bestsolution.efxclipse.runtime.examples.swt-bundle. The code currently holds a lot of calls to Util.logNotImplemented() track them down and implement them so that they do the same as they do in the other SWT ports
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